"Our players have been able to connect to their cities in the game for nearly 8 million hours of gameplay time and we've reduced game crashes by 92% from day one," she said.

"We'll be monitoring each server and gameplay metrics to ensure that the service remains strong and game is playing great. We need a few more days of data before we can assure you that the problem is completely solved and the game is running at 100 percent."

In HuffPost's experience this largely holds true - after a weekend of (depressingly extensive...) SimCity play we experienced few problems other than slight connection delays.

EA said earlier that it would attempt to make peace with gamers by sending them a free game from their back catalogue.